These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church, 2015. Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2017. The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics:

544,000

Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population:

0.43%

Baptisms per Year (Under age 7):

2,688

Baptisms per Year (Over age 7):

2,886

First Communions per Year:

3,234

Confirmations per Year:

6,920

Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools:

20,453

Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools:

70,505

Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education:

18,054

Church Marriages per Year:

1,390

Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics:

221

Priests:

1,446

Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters):

5,334

Catholics per Priest:

376

Parishes:

870

Mission Stations (no resident priests):

13

Catholic Hospitals:

25

Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids:

261

1.United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Urbanization Prospects, 2014.

2.United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.